![]() According to the exhibition list, Interior of an Atelier measured four by three and a half pieds, or 130 by 113.7 centimeters. Lemoine did not seize the first opportunity but five years later showed several miniatures and three paintings, all figure subjects. In 1791 the Salon, previously open only to members of the Académie (whose number included as few as four women), became for the first time a public venue. This may be Lemoine’s most significant work if, as is widely believed, it is the one she sent to the Salon of 1796, where it was exhibited as number 284, Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter. She exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance in 17, and at the Salon intermittently from 1796 to 1804 and in 1814. Ménageot rented an apartment in a house belonging to the husband of the portraitist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), with whose work Lemoine must have been familiar. ![]() Marie Victoire seems to have been the oldest and reportedly she studied with the history painter François Guillaume Ménageot (1744–1816), who returned to Paris from Rome in 1775 to become a full academician in 1781. 1811/14) and Marie Denise Villers (1774–1821)-who were also artists. ![]() ![]() Born in Paris in 1754, Marie Victoire Lemoine had two sisters-Marie Élisabeth Gabiou (d. ![]()
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